Knock on wood, all is still good at bedtime.  I'll let you know if it goes back to before or stays well over the next week...

Instant cure, wow!

Doing weights is great, muscles help health in many ways.

Hi John;

Thanks for the link. How is the hand holding up.

It's five days later, and the hand/wrist is still perfectly fine and I helped move heavy furniture for a sibling.
No pain at all!!  ...   Yeah, that link is pretty interesting.  Wish I owned the whole book that the pdf comes from.  Wonder how much and where you can buy it.

That's what my sister said to me when I picked up a table all by myself last night!!
She said, "don't hurt your back John!!".
I said, "Oh, this is nothing."
But still it is important to be aware of your back since it is so fragile.
Thanks bobbym.
Today I did some walking and a little running, very little.
Since my feet are wide in the front with bunions and normal in the back,
I have to be creative with a lot of my footwear to get it to fit right.
Then ofcourse I noted last week if I run on the grass, still not frozen,
that it feels a lot better on the body, since it isn't so hard as tar.
My quest is to find or build or modify footwear to make it squishier.
I've made some working models that are okay, but nothing super yet.
Shoe Goo and foam-rubber works great on the bottom of some footwear.
I had a yoga mat that I gave to my sister, that I might get back and turn
it into soles for old sneakers, on the outside botttom...

There's a shoe I haven't tried called Z-Coil Shoes.  They are here in the East.  See if there is a store near you.  They do personal fitting.  Also Good Feet sells a wide and normal sneakers with 3 springs inside the bottom part, but I haven't bought them or tried them yet since it's an hour plus drive away.

My Dad had flat feet and he was a teacher and a barber both, so he stood a lot.  But somehow he managed.  When he was retired, the hospital got him some diabetic shoes, since he had type 2 diab.

My Dad had strokes too.  He smoked from age 13 to 76.   I had a cousin, and she died of lung cancer at around 39 or 40 years old.  Very, very sad.   My sister smokes a lot, can't get her to stop.  I only have smoked about ten cigarettes in all of 2011.   Usually only one or two puffs and I put it out.   I actually have 5 cigarettes left still from the pack I bought in January.  It's just a silly thing that won't increase because I am very careful not to smoke any two cigarettes closer than 1 week apart.   Maybe you could say I'm hooked, but it sure ain't much.

Oh geez.  Yeah, I thought I was over thinking sadly about my Dad, but now I think I'm in a stage of denial, where I just won't let me think about him to much.  I think I'll start to try to change that and think about the good times we had more often.

Yup!  Thanks.  Now I'm going up the hill to a store with slices of pizza ready.  Just called them.

Our power was out for 2 1/2 hours this early morning.
We got an inch of snow and then an eighth of an inch of ice on top.
It is melting now.
North of me, in central and northern NH I think they got more outages
according to Public Service of NH on the phone.

Hi bobby and rest, mif, sarah rebekah:  All is well.  I'm getting over a 3 week cold.  It hardly is anything anymore.  Was a bad one though and I gave it to my Mom who is about 5 days behind me on it, still recovering now.  So anyway, I was searching to see if any new elemental masses/weights had been announced yet since it is every 2 years, so this is what I found.  No changes yet but a project is underway.  This tiny read is marked as 01DEC2011:
http://www.iupac.org/web/ins/2009-029-1-200
http://www.iupac.org/web/ins/2009-029-1-200